This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … reform that reduced the entitlements of eligible spouses and American Community Survey data on marriage and the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … ability. We show that a Choo and Siow (2006) model with sorting on cohort, qualifications, and latent ability is identified … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose …